In Turkey last year, there was a large conspiracy involving the entrance exam for the Turkish university. Apparently, there was a cipher within the exam that revealed the answers to many of the multiple choice questions. It was rumored that a select few were given the answer on how to decipher this and thus give them many of the answers. The cipher may have been an accident but it still drew much attention. This conspiracy ran all the way up to the prime minister. Imagine going into the SATs and knowing a code that would give you the right answer for all the questions.
Here is the website that explains this conspiracy in detail:
http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110531/full/474017a.html
This sounds like a lot of effort to decipher a test when you could just take it. What if you deciphered the code wrong and then you answer all of the questions wrong, that would suck.
ReplyDeleteI find this entire article so bizarre. I am perplexed as to how the article can claim that the cipher was an accident, yet some students were told how to decode it. The article explained that the way to decode the answers was to numerically line up the multiple choice answers next to the original order. The one that held the same position in both cases would be the answer. This is not something that a student stumbles across when taking a crucial exam, one that will determine whether he or she is allowed to attend a university! If the cipher exists, and students used it, then someone knew about the cipher and told them about it! It will be interesting to see how Turkey handles the situation.
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